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Non-Tech : Waterhouse Securities -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Pink Minion who wrote (1874)	3/2/2000 3:42:00 PM
From: bh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2076

What stock took 30 min for a market order to execute? I have accounts at ET and WH, and much prefer the WH. Since the web site was updated, I have no complaints.

To: Pink Minion who wrote (1874)	3/2/2000 4:01:00 PM
From: Peter Speyer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2076

I have not had any problems of note with Waterhouse in the past six months. I have not been unable to log on to webBroker during market hours in the last six months. I have never had any serious problems with Waterhouse in my 3 year history there. I log on and place orders on webBroker every day. I average about 1-2 orders per day. My confirmations are within 30 seconds. I often can see the buy or sell stock order execute on my Datek streamer, and I press order status on webBroker, and there it is, filled as I requested. I mostly deal with NYSE and regular Nasdaq stocks, and rarely with bulletin board stocks. I almost always use a limit order. I have yet to be screwed in the execution of any limit order. The fills are good, sometimes better than I asked for. I use a 33.6k baud modem, with a small local internet service provider. The two times I have had occasion to call Waterhouse in the last few months, I waited 5-10 minutes on hold. My suspicion is that many of the problems people have with webBroker is due to internet congestion problems on their local servers. Otherwise, I think I would experience at least some of the difficulties noted on this board. Edit: I almost never use market orders.

To: Pink Minion who wrote (1874)	3/4/2000 9:59:00 PM
From: Dr. Voodoo	Respond to of 2076

Thoughts while sitting on hold with Wheresmyhouse: All neurons and no synaptic response. Nobody there seems to be able to make a connection with my account. I have had enuf. They have only been good for finding shares to short. But if you can't get a damn conformation(last one was with the account officier on the phone, who couldn't get a conformation), what the hell good are they. I have had trouble getting them to do the simplest things like transfer shares. They can't execute. They suck. Thank you for holding, for immediate access to our touch tone trading and quotes, please dial.....I have heard this tooo many times. V